Google and DARPA have a lot in common — they both try to anticipate the future and make big bets on emerging technologies. Google even has a history of snapping up DARPA-funded technology — the self-driving car came from a DARPA-sponsored competition — and poaching its employees.
That doesn’t mean the two innovation houses want to work together, however. Google isn’t interested in taking money from DARPA because its ambitions are in the more lucrative consumer market, and any association with DARPA leads to headlines like, “What the heck will Google do with these scary military robots?” DARPA doesn’t want to give Google money because it wants to use its $2.7 billion budget to fund startups with scarce resources, not Goliath tech companies, and its investments are supposed to seed technology that can one day be purchased by the Pentagon for national defense, which Google is unlikely to play along with.
who owns a Singularity anyway?
Well well well. Maybe there’s a shot, here, after all.
Or das GOOG wanna keep any competitive advantage they can for their Future War of Independence for their Breakaway Republic.
the US is everything-outside-theWall.
Google rejects military funding for its advanced humanoid robot
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